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Variety of Vine · Vitis vinifera
Fungus-resistant (PIWI) red wine grape – dark wine with greatly reduced spraying.
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6🇩🇪 Germany 1967
Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmmildaromatic
Susceptibility & resistance
Downy mildewPowdery mildew
Profile
- Parentage
- Diana x Chambourcin
- Breeder
- G. Alleweldt, Institut Geilweilerhof
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 2 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small, blue-black seeded berries yielding deeply coloured, tannic red wines.
Growth
Robust and mildew-tolerant, ideal for organic viticulture.
Yield
Wine grape; one of Germany's most successful PIWI red varieties.
Notes
Good fungal protection but not fully immune.
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